Leslie Ocskay, a Catholic Hungarian who saved the lives of several thousand Jews during the Nazi occupation of Hungary, was presented with a gold watch today at the Award meeting of the United Hias Service Wonen’s Division.
The watch was given to symbolize the years added to the lives of Jews he saved from the gas chambers while serving as a Hungarian army commander of a labor battalion in 1944. On one occasion, he managed to load onto three trucks Jews who were doomed to extermination and transferred them to his “battalion of refuge.” Mr. Ocskay now lives in Kingston, N. Y.
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